BIOGRAPHY • JONATHAN LASKER JONATHAN LASKER • BIOGRAPHY 1948 Born in Jersey City, NJ Education: 1975-77 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1977 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA Solo exhibitions: 2014 Jonathan Lasker: Recent Paintings, Peder Lund, Oslo (3/29 – 5/31) 2012 Jonathan Lasker: Early Works, Cheim & Read, New York (2/23 – 3/24/12) Jonathan Lasker: The 80s, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden (1/14 - 2/12/12) Jonathan Lasker: Recent Paintings, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris (1/10 - 2/2/12) 2011 Jonathan Lasker: The 80s, Timothy Taylor, London (11/19 – 12/23/11) 2010 Recent Paintings, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA (2/25 – 3/3/10) Jonathan Lasker: In the Presence of the Artists, Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Ble- gium (9/22 – 10/30/10) 2009 Jonathan Lasker, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden (1/17 - 3/8/09) 2008 Jonathan Lasker, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (11/4/08 – 1/11/09) Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (5/3 – 6/28/08) 2007 Jonathan Lasker: Drawings 1979-2007, Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany (6/5 – 7/7/07) Jonathan Lasker: Studies for Paintings, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Jonathan Lasker, Cheim & Read, New York (3/29 - 5/5/07) 2006 Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium; Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria 2005 Jonathan Lasker: From Drawing to Painting to Drawing, Kunsthallen Brandts The Difference Between Similar Things, Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy 2004 Coloured Scribbles, Timothy Taylor, London 2003 Drawings, Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany Jonathan Lasker: Paintings, Drawings, Studies 1977-2003, Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; K-20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany Drawing and Painting, Sperone Westwater, New York (10/30 -12/13/03); Timothy Taylor, London 2002 Sperone Westwater at the ADAA Art Show, New York; Galerie Kienzle und Gmein- er, Berlin, Germany Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany; Galleri Wang, Oslo, Norway 2001 Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden 2000 Complete Print Survey, Jan Weiner, Kansas City, MO; Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France 1999-2000 Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity - Paintings from the 1990's, Forum for Con- temporary Art, St. Louis, MO; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL 1999 Sperone Westwater, New York 1998 Timothy Taylor, London, England Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1986-1997, Centre Nicolas Pomel, Association Art Contemporain, Issoire, France Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain 1997-98 Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1977-1997, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Kunstverein St. Gallen im Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland 1997 Velge et Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium; Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France Galerie Kienzle und Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany: Galleria Milleventi, Turin, Italy Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO 1996 Sperone Westwater, New York 1995 Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain; L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland; Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden Bravin Post Lee, New York 1993 Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Holland; Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, IL Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany; Sperone Westwater, New York 1992 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC Eugene Binder, Dallas, TX 1991 Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy; Schmidt Markow Gallery, St. Louis, MO Annette Gmeiner, Stuttgart, Germany; Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden; Sper- one Westwater, New York 1990 Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany; Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden 1989 Massimo Audiello, New York 1988 Massimo Audiello, New York; Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy 1987 Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany; Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden 1986 Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany; Tibor De Nagy, New York Massimo Audiello, New York 1984 Annette Gmeiner, Kirchzarten, Germany; Tibor De Nagy, New York 1981 Landmark Gallery, New York Gunnar Kaldewey, Düsseldorf, Germany Selected group exhibitions: 2013 Painting 101, Sargent’s Daughters, New York (11/6- 12/7/13) 2012-13 Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s, Cheim & Read, New 3 York (6/27- 8/30/13) 2011 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (3/8 - 4/10/11) Exhibition of Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Jim Schmidt Presents: Abstraction, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO (6/10 - 8/30/11) The Minimal Gesture, Timothy Taylor, London, England 1991... Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany Night Scented Stock, curated by Todd Levin, Marianne Boesky, New York The Bewildered Image: American Painters from the 1980s, Patricia Low Contem- porary, Geneva, Switzerland 2010 Studies in Paint: Jonathan Lasker & John Noel Smith, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin (8/26 - 9/18/10) Le Tableau: French Abstraction and its Affinities, curated by Joe Fyfe, Cheim & Read, New York (6/24 – 9/3/10) España / America The Redefined Abstraction: Angela de la Cruz, Luis Gordillo, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Fabian Marcaccio, Jessica Stockholder, Juan Uslé, and Daniel Verbis, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid (1/28 – 3/6/10) Loose Joints, curated by Hans-Jürgen Hafner and Daniel Kletke, Kienzle Art Foun- dation, Berlin, Germany Babel, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France Bravin Lee Programs, New York Town and Country, curated by Trevor Winkfield, Tibor de Nagy, New York Tama- rind Touchstones: Fabulous at Fifty, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albur- querque, NM Currents in Contemporary Art, Orlando Art Museum, Orlando, FL 2009 Jettison: New Ideas in Abstraction, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN (9/8 - 9/25/09) Abstractions by Gallery Artists, Cheim & Read, New York (9/24 – 10/3/09) Summarize / Summer Eyes, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO (summer 09); L.A. Louver, Venice, CA Die Gegenwart der Linie, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Pinakothek der Mod- erne, Munich, Germany Collecting Evidence – Part I: False Friends, The Kienzle Art Foundation, Branden- burgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, Germany On Paper, Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art, Clevland, OH Print, Mush- room Works, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England 2008 American & British Artists, Galleria Il Cerchio, Milan (10/2 – 12/19/08) Summarize / Summer Eyes, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO (7-8/08) What is a Print?, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Out of Storage I: Peintures choisies de la Collection, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg En Construcción I, La Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Vigo, Spain Works on Paper: Jonathan Lasker, Chris Martin, Thomas Nozkowski, James Sie- na, BravinLee Programs, New York 4 2007-08 American Abstract, Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (12/20/07 – 2/3/08) Automatons, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles (12/15/07 – 1/19/08) Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL (12/8/07 - 2/3/08) 2007 Quirky, The Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT (11/9 – 12/19/07) Contemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (10/20 - 12/30/07) Nouvelle Présentation des Collections du Musée National d’Art Moderne, Musée National d’Art Moderne: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Conversations: Artist & Collector, The Collection of James Cottrell & Joseph Lovett, North Dakota Museum, Grand Forks, North Dakota Play, Galleri Wang, Oslo, Norway On Paper!: Amerikanische Zeichnung ab 1960, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg, Germany Multiples, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Summer Eyes/Summarize, Jan Weiner, Kansas City, MO Articulated Forms, Rabley Contemporary Drawing Center, Marlborough, England Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas In the Realm of the Senses: Selections from the Collection of Dr. James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett, The Clay Center, Charleston, WV Donald Baechler, Jonathan Lasker, Bjarne Melgaard, Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden Selections from the Permanent Collection: New Gifts, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX 2006 Broken Surface, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany Patrick Heron, Jonathan Lasker, Katie Pratt, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, England Affinities, Centre Européen d’Action Artistiques, Strassbourg, France The 181st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Art, New York Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden Modern and Contemporary Master Drawings, Connaught Brown Gallery, London, England Summer Eyes/Summarize, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO (7/7 - 8/28/06) Last Call, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (4/28 - 5/13/06) Gunnar A. Kaldewey: Artist Books for a Global World, Four Collaborations in Depth, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA Hot Springs in Autumn, Galerie Krinzinger, Austria 2005 Willem De Kooning und Die Folgen, BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria; Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands Yankee Love & Latin Doodle, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy Glimpse, curated by Rob Nadeau, Mixed Greens, New York, 25 Years Baumgartner Gallery: Selected One-Person Exhibitions, Part Two, Baum- gartner Gallery, New York 5 The Spirit of an Open Mind, Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Campo En Expansion: Los Ochenta En La Coleccion De La Fundacion